"defund" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From de- + fund.",
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          "ref": "1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement",
          "text": "Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?",
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          "ref": "2003, David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design",
          "text": "However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 August 5, Claire Woodcock, “This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books”, in Vice.com, archived from the original on 2022-12-11",
          "text": "\"It has me concerned that this religiously-powered anti-access anti-person campaign has succeeded in a small town in America already,\" Chrastka told Motherboard. \"The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect that we used to have in America for the separation of church and state and a rise of a political perspective that wants to essentially break government, defund education, approach issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign... this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest of America to wake up.\"",
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        "To cancel funding for."
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        "(transitive, chiefly US) To cancel funding for."
      ],
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          "word": "unfund"
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      "rhymes": "-ʌnd"
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  "word": "defund"
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